13 must-read historical fiction books like Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Alfred J. MacAdam

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Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen , Alfred J. MacAdam

3.85

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Auste…

"I have no talent for certainty."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"I have no talent for certainty."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Alfred J. MacAdam , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, Angeline Goreau

1. Agnes Grey

By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more

Similar categories in Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey book and Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey

  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • historical
  • 19th century
  • classic literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Dakle,"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"No one cares for the exterior."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"But, God knows best, I concluded."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"If you require perfection, you never will"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

Cover of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Michael Mason

2. Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason

4.15

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Alternate editions can be found here and here. A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • historical
  • classic literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Never,"

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"You are human and fallible."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"Conventionality is not morality."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"Beauty is in the eye of the gazer."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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3. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • fiction
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

Cover of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn

4. Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn

3.89

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE. At the centre of this novel is the passi… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • literature
  • classic literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He’s more myself than I am"

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"Terror made me cruel . . ."

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"She burned too bright for this world."

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Cover of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard

5. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Cover of Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) by L.M. Montgomery

6. Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This heartwarming story has beckoned generations of readers into the special world of Green Gables,… read more

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  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"I love a book that makes me cry."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

"Red hair is my life long sorrow."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

"All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves"

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

"True friends are always together in spirit."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

Cover of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan Shelston

7. North and South

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

Format: 521 pages, Paperback

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • historical
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

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8. Cranford

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Villette by Charlotte Brontë, A.S. Byatt, Μαρία Λαϊνά, Ignes Sodre

9. Villette

By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • fiction
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10. The Professor

By: Charlotte Brontë

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and con… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, Stevie Davies

11. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more

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  • gothic
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • classic literature
  • literature
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, Jacqueline Howard

12. The Mysteries of Udolpho

By: Ann Radcliffe , Jacqueline Howard

4.18

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

With The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe raised the Gothic romance to a new level and inspired … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Maureen Howard

13. The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard

2.64

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Alfred J. MacAdam

14. Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen , Alfred J. MacAdam

3.85

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Auste… read more

Similar categories in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey book and Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey

  • gothic
  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • historical
  • 19th century
  • classic literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"I have no talent for certainty."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

15. A Room with a View

By: E.M. Forster

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more

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16. Little Women

By: Louisa May Alcott

4.16

Format: 449 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451529305. Generations of readers young and old, … read more

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  • literature
  • historical
  • classic literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"I hate ordinary people!"

-Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

"Let us be elegant or die!"

-Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

"Love covers a multitude of sins…"

-Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

"Conceit spoils the finest genius."

-Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Cover of Middlemarch by Michel Faber, George Eliot

17. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

Cover of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude

18. Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude

4.09

Format: 964 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contempo… read more

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  • literature
  • historical
  • 19th century
  • classic literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Love those you hate you."

-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

"And where love ends, hate begins"

-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

"Everything intelligent is so boring."

-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

"Anything is better than lies and deceit!"

-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

19. Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more

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Cover of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

20. The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Oscar Wilde’s only novel is the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"To define is to limit."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"All art is quite useless."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"What fire does not destroy, it hardens"

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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21. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847. Mary Shelley's seminal novel of t… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
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  • literature
"I am malicious because I am miserable"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"One wondering thought pollutes the day"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

18 must-read fiction books like Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Alfred J. MacAdam

Transform Your Habits

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

Transform Your Habits

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn

3.89

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20 best-selling fiction books like Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude

Transform Your Habits

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen , Mark Twain , Virginia Woolf , Anna Quindlen , George Saintsbury , A.C. Bradley , None , None

4.29

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Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

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